28.1 MySQL Internals

This chapter describes a lot of things that you need to know when
working on the MySQL code. To track or contribute to MySQL
development, follow the instructions in
Section 2.9.3, “Installing MySQL Using a Development Source Tree”. If you are
interested in MySQL internals, you should also subscribe to our
internals mailing list. This list has
relatively low traffic. For details on how to subscribe, please
see Section 1.6.2, “MySQL Mailing Lists”. Many MySQL developers at
Oracle Corporation are on the internals list
and we help other people who are working on the MySQL code. Feel
free to use this list both to ask questions about the code and to
send patches that you would like to contribute to the MySQL
project!